On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> In the longer term, however, I suggest that it would be a good strategy
> to steer the FS tools in a direction that allowed them to be built and
> used on foreign hosts.
> 
	Most certainly - 'disklabel' currently has code that installs
	bootblocks on some (i396) architectures. I think this has been
	described as 'just plain wrong'.

	The first stage that needs to be done is splitting out the
	disklabel handling code from the ports - so I can for example
	mount a SunOS disk on a NetBSD/i386 machine. Before that
	happens we need to cope with big/little endian ffs on a given
	machine.

	Actually, from my viewpoint just being about to mount a DOS
	formatted Jaz disk on my NetBSD/sparc box would be real nice, but
	I'm upgrading to current in preparation for poking around at that
	:)

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

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